PHANTASMAGORICAL

PRONUNCIATION: (fan-taz-muh-GOR-i-kuhl)

MEANING: adjective: Illusory; strange; deceptive; imaginary; surreal; hallucinatory.

ETYMOLOGY: From French fantasmagorie, from fantasme (phantasm) perhaps combined with Greek agora (assembly). Earliest documented use: 1828.
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PHANTASMAORICAL - describing the spirit world of indigenous New Zealand

PHANTASMAYORICAL - the wildest dreams of the Chief Executive Officer of New York City

PHANTASMAGONICAL - like the maunderings of the Transformation Professor at Hogwarts